Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lets me furl her around for a while , and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like , and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent — before she calls a halt , slithers off the bed , corrects her clothing , brushes her hair , changes her shoes , powders her nose , slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch . |
| 2 | ( Do I make it sound like a paradise , a utopia , a socialist state such as would delight Shelley 's and your father 's hearts ? |
| 3 | I asked him in for a break . |
| 4 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 5 | Suppose I bring it up on a tray in about half an hour . |
| 6 | I lay it neatly over a Sarson 's Malt Vinegar box . |
| 7 | I make it out of a fucking cocoa tin ! ’ |
| 8 | He goes I pick it up in a bag and chuck it out the window ! |
| 9 | I got it down to a fine art , but it was all additional pressure . |
| 10 | You all know what Strats sound like and what 5-position selectors do , but to get an overall picture of this guitar I lined it up against a regular office hack ( a Tokai hybrid with an old ‘ 58 Fender neck and Alnico Pro II 's in the middle and bridge positions ) and can report that the SRV came out well . |
| 11 | Ouch , I thought , that really hurt , and I clenched it tight for a moment to stop the pain , before looking to see the damage . |
| 12 | I tried it out on a modest 386SX and it still felt fast on a big test database . |
| 13 | ‘ I found him sometimes in a sort of energized depression ’ , said Shaffer . |
| 14 | But long before her death my grandmother was a ghost to me , as if she was never really there , even though I visited her regularly as a child . |
| 15 | This bizarre characteristic did not disappear with the end of the war , for when I visited her home during a sugar shortage in the 1970s , I saw the dining-room mantelpiece piled high with two-pound bags — enough , surely , to satisfy the most desperate sweet-tooth for months , or even years , to come . |
| 16 | When I started feeding them I built them up to a wedge of ‘ Horsehage ’ each — which they love . |
| 17 | ‘ I think I narrowed it down after a lot of sifting through . |
| 18 | I drew it downwards with a clean cut . |
| 19 | I delighted them once with a return invitation to dine at The Pightle . |
| 20 | I put him down as a schoolboy . |
| 21 | I put them down as a 'No' , eight per cent could n't bring themselves to support this strategy , they are 'Nos ' . |
| 22 | Not wanting to offend , I gave them a try and ended up almost throwing the box away , but instead I put them aside in a small corner of my studio . |
| 23 | made with all milk you see , and I put this on the other day , it was Monday , and I put it on for a cup of coffee , well Jim was out the front with Tom cos Tom fixed the front door |
| 24 | Er , well , she she 's not being supported by the commission for year one , and in fact she wo n't be supported for year two either , so the thing that , I I 'm I 'm I put it in as a potential budget |
| 25 | I put it down to a lingering melancholy and sense of impending loss at leaving the melin , even though by now he was in full agreement . |
| 26 | But I put it down to a natural wish on Jefferson 's part to protect what for him was a considerable investment in a new club and , if Harley 's new agent had exacted his usual pound , or stone rather , of flesh , a considerable investment in a golf pro . |
| 27 | People think I put it there as a piece of pop art to decorate the room . |
| 28 | This separates the individual eggs from the clump , and I spread them out in a layer one egg thick . |
| 29 | Like , I did n't know whether to believe him or not , but you 'd feel wick if he was n't spoofing , so I let him off with a caution . |
| 30 | I 'm sorry , Ellie ; I let you in for a hard time , did n't I ? ’ |